,” based on Mart Crowley’s play about a group of gay men who gather in a New York apartment for their friend Harold’s birthday.
At the time of the 1968 run, gay actors in the production were warned not to come out publicly because doing so would likely ruin their careers. The “Star Trek” actor recalls first entering the business in 1999, when there was still “explicit stigma” about being out in Hollywood. “I did feel like me coming out would have potentially had an impact on my career and it wouldn’t have been a good one,” he says.
But in 2011, Quinto talked publicly about his sexuality for the first time with a post on his website. “That was at a time when a lot of young gay kids were killing themselves around the country because of bullying. There was a huge spate of teen suicides that were happening,” he says. “I just felt like I had an obligation at this point.
Amazing how 'coming out' is still being used as a virtue signal in 2020. No one cares that you're gay.
You want courage, try praising the original movie cast who first made the film in a very gay hostile 1970. Those guys had guts. This Quinto and the others are just cashing in on the latest trend.
But his global reach was made when he was in Heroes.
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